Generally, railroads retired them before Geeps and 1st gen ALCOs. Does anybody know of some really late hangers-on?
Thanks.
- Douglas
I recently discovered B&O used their H16-44s into '72.
Larry
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UP's were traded in in 1966, with one making it to 1968.
Ed
CPR retired their fleet in 1975. CN went in the late 1960s. I think Mexico (Ch-P) may have been the last running any sort of fleet.
Thanks for the replies. So far, that's a lot later than I would have thought since FM fell out of favor fairly quickly.
Keep up the good information.....
PRR's FM Erie Builts were retired in 1962-3. The C-Liners lasted a bit longer, being retired in 1965. PRR's hood units did a bit better, with the H20-44's lasting till about 1966-7, and all the H16-44's lasting until 1967. The H24-66 Trainmasters lasted latest of all. They made it to the Penn Central merger in 1968, but were gone soon after.
AC&Y H15-44 200 was traded to EMD for N&W units in 1968. H16-44's 201-203 as well as H20'44's 500-504 went to EMD in 1968 and 1969. H16-44 208 went to EMD in October, 1969. H16-44's 204-207 went to EMD in December, 1970. H20-44 505 went to Southwest Portland Cement in 1971. Retirement dates of AC&Y's ex P&WV H20-44's 506-508 are not recorded, but they probably went around 1971.
Tom
I remember seeing N&W ex-Virginian H16-44 units in Norfolk as late as 1974.
oldline1
Not what you asked but the H10 and H12's lasted into the mid 1980s on the old Centeal Wisconsin, plus isn't there an operating one in Utah still?
According to "H15-44 and H16-44---Fairbanks-Morse's Distinctive Road Switchers" by David R. Sweetland and Diesel Era (Withers Publishing), CNJ's H15-44s were the last to be retired in 1971 and sold for scrap 11/14/72. As far as H16-44s, the MILW retired the last U.S. fleet in 1976. Mexico's Chihuahua al Pacifico replaced theirs with GP-40-2s in 1982, and the last H16-44 to be retired in North America was Bosques de Chihuahua's 1961 built BCh 1000 which was retired in 1988 when the sawmill served by the carrier closed.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
Hello all,
Outside of Boulder, Colorado, there is an asphalt manufacturing plant that has an H16-44 that was used to shuttle cars and make up consists.
This was used up until a few years ago when it was replaced by a track mobile.
Hope this helps.
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jjdamnit Hello all, Outside of Boulder, Colorado, there is an asphalt manufacturing plant that has an H16-44 that was used to shuttle cars and make up consists. This was used up until a few years ago when it was replaced by a track mobile. Hope this helps.
Where was this, I was looking on Google maps and couldn't find it.